565579 - Video exits full screen if clicking on other monitor ( Dual monitors )

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(External Software Affecting Firefox Graveyard :: Flash (Adobe), defect)

Description

[Justin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100315 Firefox/3.5.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100315 Firefox/3.5.9

On a dual-monitor configuration, when watching video (such as youtube), and you full screen the video, if you click on a different window the video exits full screen mode.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open any video on youtube.
2.  Make the video full screen.
3.  On the second monitor, click a window.
Actual Results:  
The video exits full screen.

Expected Results:  
The video remains full screen, and other applications can be used without interrupting the video.

Comment 2

[swordams]

Here is a program that may solve this issue:
http://www.jmaxxz.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=89:flashhacker&catid=16:downloads&Itemid=32
It is not guaranteed to work, so use it at your own risk, but it worked for me!

Comment 3

[Tanay Gavankar [:tgavankar]]

Flash uses this functionality where if you click outside, it closes the fullscreen mode. This is the intended functionality, and there are dlls you can replace (http://my.opera.com/d.i.z./blog/2009/04/22/watch-fullscreen-flash-while-working-on-another-screen) to keep the video in fullscreen.

Comment 4

[neb1236]

Flash has change this behaviour by default from some time ago now, so this is resolved
But the same problem happens with the native fullscreen API, should a new bug be filled to decide the default behaviour?

Comment 5

[Remus Pop (:RemusPop)]

I can also reproduce this in Ubuntu 11.04 with Version: Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102 with FF 10 to FF 13 (nightly).

Comment 6

[Mihaela Velimiroviciu (:mihaelav)]

(In reply to neb1236 from comment #4)

> But the same problem happens with the native fullscreen API, should a new
> bug be filled to decide the default behaviour?

Bug #706555 was logged as a separate issue for html5 videos.

Comment 7

[smadayag]

this issue was resolved in 2011 and should be closedWorksForMe...

Comment 8

[BMO Automation]

Version and milestone values are being reset to defaults as part of product refactoring.